Happy Tuesday!!!

We have orange barrel weather here in ohio

Hello!

I don't know what you would call that weather here in Oregon... Normal? :)

Book? DID I SEE BOOK? Books are gooooood!

Have a great one,
Cat

De-lurking to enter the book give-away!

Your posts are always seem to make me smile. Thanks!

We're under the summertime never-ending high pressure DOME in Texas. It is hot with no rain in sight.
Pretty please, enter me for Yarn Harlot's book! I'm on a "no new books until I read everything in the stack" kick, but I really want to make an exception for hers! Thanks!

Yes please!! One book!!

This is my hello post, cause books (that my college budget can't afford) rock my socks! Plus, I love yarn, and who wouldn't want more yarn porn? Thanks for doing all the give-aways!

P.S. You should post one day about your secret for looking pretty in EVERY SINGLE PICTURE, because it is not fair. Share the love woman!

Books = Awesome!!! and sign me up for a copy of Soba's Manifesto!

Gratz on your letting go. I tell you, reading your blog is such an inspiration. Thanks for letting all of us share in your life (and your kitties =^.^= )

Love ya!

Hello, Just a note to let you know that by using your pattern for the lacy shawl from you book I won Reserve Grand Champion at Sedalia Fiber Festival this year. I used a double strand of gray Lamb's Pride sock yarn. Hope this doesn't sound too goofy.

Yay! I'd love a book! The Harlot rocks! Did you see she mentioned seeing you on her blog?

Oooohhhh....pick me!!!

I stopped being anxious in public when I realized that what I'm doing is not all that memorable so it's all ok. Even if I fall down. Sometimes. Ok, a lot.

A book would be great!

Hi! Another de-lurker here at the prospect of winning a book. Especially one signed by my hero! I love the bumper sticker you posted. I may have to find one for myself.

Hello! Free books! Woo!

Book!

We're currently having *rain* here, which is just fine, because it means guilt-free reading time. :)

I want to win books too!!!

You guessed it: I'd like to win books. :D

Here in central MI we tend to have two types of weather gloom (overcast skies with rain on the horizon) and doom (the result of said rain - flooding everywhere). But hey, the gloom does provide ample book reading opportunity. Ahem (pick me, random number generator!).

I love books! I love your cats! I love wine and I love yarn! Pick me, pick me!!

One more for the delurkers hoping to win a book. (Especially if it's going to be about men's hair loss.)
I'll trade you a little bit of our rain and a couple inches of snow for some of your June Gloom.

Just wanted to throw my hat in the ring for a copy of The Yarn Harlot's latest and greatest!

Free book? Yes please!

By the way, the other logo on that car is a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Google it for a good laugh!

Wooo, free stuff.

That guy looks fake, I call shenanigans on the dancing.

I'd love to be entered to win a book... I can never afford knitting books. College textbooks already require the sale of critical organs.

Congrats on the men's hair loss bestseller! That's actually probably a really good thing, considering how many men are bald. ;)

Sorry about the gloomy weather. Although I can't say I'd prefer to be dying of heatstroke, or stuck in a mudslide/earthquake/wildfire combo. Maybe the gloom is a relief... ?

Keep on keepin' on, Laurie. I love your blog.

Laurie, I bought your book when it came out. Actually, I pre-ordered it then waited by the door every day to see if it came. At the time, my marriage was pretty stable. Well, on March 31st the bastard came home from 2 weeks on the road to tell me he wasn't happy anymore and wanted a divorce. I have since re-read your book and it has a whole different meaning. Oh, and I guess he's a lot happier now with his new girlfriend. Turns out he had an affair while he was gone and moved her and her two children in with him within three weeks of leaving me. The best revenge for a woman who sleeps with your husband is to let her have him!!

Yarn Harlot books! MO is having kinda crazy weather. Rain, gloom, bits of sunshine and 90 degree weather.

Hello!
Please enter me in the give a book away sweepstakes.

Thanks for the entertaining blog. You make me smile. Pink is your color.

Getting hot & sticky here. In a bad way. Welcome to Atlanta.

Ooooh, I want to win books!

Plus, I totally understand about the whole nervous sweating thing. Even the smallest amount of attention brings on the red heat wave - all over my body. But I'd rather be a nervous sweaty wreck than a Botox Statue. :)

LOVE the bumper sticker!

Paid $3.94 for petrol yesterday in Inderana.

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Here in Houston it's been summer for at least a month now. Our other season- Not Summer- starts in November.

Hello! Please pick me! (And I can't believe you got to meet Nellie Olson!)

Free books? Sign me up!

Here in Korea we have yellow dust days (called hwangsa). Stuff blows over from the Gobi desert. Looks like your June gloom, but with a slightly yellow tinge. June Gloom sounds so much better than hwangsa. Kudos on the catchy names, California. ;)

Yes, I'd love to be entered in the contest to win a fantabulous book!

Hello.

Would love to enter. Love the pink.

oh yes, all about the free books =)

And your gas prices make me feel less awful about ours, which thankfully haven't hit over the $4 mark... not yet at least.

Count me in on the drawing for a book! I love books!! I also love cats...three Siamese rule our house! Thanks so much for your blog, it makes me smile!

Yay! Nice pink! Please enter me. :)

Oh Tina B., best of luck to you. Have the cat pee in his car on a hot day.

Laurie:
Love to see you in the PINK! Color, woo!
Enter me in the book give-away goodness.
There is so earthquake weather.

I am so with you on the whole sweat thing. And I have been doing it all my life. Now, knocking on that wonderful menopause door, I wonder what deluges I am in for. Black is fabulous. White is good too!
Sign me up for the book. Love your book too, by the way. I am a proud owner.

Free stuff = good. Free books = better. Free book about knitting? = Sign me up!

Please sign me up for the book giveaway...thanks! Love the bumper sticker. Went back and re-read the meltdown in Nashville airport post...wow, that was a powerful post chock full of excellent points that I need to read often and take to heart. Thanks!!

P.S. don't suppose we can see a video of you dancing with Jose?

Atleast your weather seems consistent enough for a title. Ours, in Idaho, changes every five minutes. Literally.

Oh and this is my Hello! I wanna win a book!

Happy Tuesday!

It is so much fun seeing all the cool people you met at the book expo! And you look great in pink.

Our summer really only began on May 31st, but I did see my first lightning bugs on May 8th. To me, that is the start of summer (usually!).

yes, please books! since I be staying home more with knitting and cats, I need me some books to chuck at them!

May Grey, June Gloom, that's good SoCal weather for you. :) We don't have much of the earthquake weather in San Diego, but the rest, Oh yes, we do have it.

Hello!
Would you please enter me in the book drawing?
Thank you,
Michelle

Hello,
Sign me up for the book giveaway. I agree $4.45 isn't Thirfty! Sheesh.
Carla in Atlanta

Hey - sign me up for the book give away =)

Loving the pink. Books please :-)

Hello,

Think of the sweat as a light mist that makes your skin glow. Have more sweat? Show more skin!

I'd like a book please. Thank you.

delurk - ENTER CONTEST - lurking again

I'd love the enter the book contest, especially cause the picture of you and the harlot was adorable the other day!

I want to get a bumper sticker like that for my bicycle. Cause I'm no horn and all finger sometimes =)

Hello!

De-lurking to put my name in for the free books. Please and thank you. Current weather in WA is glorious rain :) Love your blog, you ROCK!!
...
And now back to my regularly scheduled lurking ;)

I don't often comment, but I just thought I would point out my total shock and horror that a gallon of regular gas costs more in my little Connecticut town than it does in LA! Last I checked was $4.29... eep!

I'm hoping to see Stephanie Pearl-McPhee on the World Wide Knit in Public Day on June 14th. A group of Torontonian knitters are getting together on that day at the Lettuce Knit to partake in the 1,000 Knitters project. I'm in! Yipieee! I'm listed as a 1,000 participant, thanks to Stephanie's blog which first mentioned it!

Come and visit Toronto!!!

Hello!

Actually, since so many people fail do their best, you doing your best rocks the house!

Ooh, a new book would be lovely. June Gloom - what a good phrase.

Wow, that gas is expensive there.

I would love to be entered for the book, btw. Thanks.

Pick me! Pick me!

Hey! Your gas stations are cute out there! When they bend us over the barrel here in South Jersey they don't give us cute little tile roofs to look at.

Maybe that is why your gas is over fifty cents more per gallon than ours!

Hey, you beat out Princess Alopecia!

Hello. (per request)

That haze looks more pleasant than our sky-dark-as-night thunderstorms of late. Which are alternated with hot-sunny-humid periods. I still have trouble imagining the pioneers saying "Yeah, let's stay here." Must have come in winter!

Good luck with your duck herding. Mine never line up.

Hello? Is the contest open to Canadians or are you still discriminating against us while all the time secretly liking us?

It is overcast here in Toronto today. OH! And rain ... we got rain too. Very exciting I know. :)

Hi Laurie! Just a note to say you rock. Keep it up.

*waving* Yo! Over here with books...please! :-)

Slash!!!!

Glad your trip to BEA was so much fun -- I loved seeing the photos and reading the stories!

Hello! Yay for books!

Oh, I would love to win your book, Laurie!

Linda

Pick me, pick me!

Here in Portland, we call this miserable rainy weather we are having Rose Festival!

Hi -- please enter me in the draw for the harlot's new book.

Pink is a very nice colour on you and it probably doesn't show the sweat marks too much. ;p

Just wanted to say that ... oh, who am I kidding? I just want the free book. I have nothing to say.

Hello! thanks for the chance...

Glad you had such a great time at the book fair, when oh when are we going to get something like that here in Charleston, SC! I would probably have to rent a U-Haul though to get all the books I would have to buy home.

Dear Laurie,
Hello from Israel!!!!
I'd love to be added to your "win a book" list!! (I can provide a US mailing address)
Love your blog,
Yona

Hi! Just sayin' ;)

oh, me please :)

(I love your writing - always makes me smile)

Me to for the book-thing!
Okay- I am SO behind that bumper sticker...as a matter of fact, my darling in-laws were visiting this weekend, and when some nasty-minded gent went ballistic on my father-in-law because he wouldn't take a blind right turn off the freeway exit before the light change (said "gent" was behind us, and aparently had other locale's to blight with his beguiling ways). As "Gent" screamed epithets out his window after we passed him in the next intesections left-turn lane, my inb-laws remained impassive, but I, err....automatically gave him the finger from the backseat. (sigh) So much for the in-laws thinking their son married a lady....

Congrats Laurie on dealing with the public appearance anxiety. Been there, done that and my t-shirt didn't even show the sweat stains too badly. Be thankful you just sweat - I threw up a few times before I got it together when I first started doing book promo tours. There used to be a whole series of local TV talk shows called People Are Talking in _________ (Baltimore, LA, Des Moines, etc. etc.) In my family, these became known as "People are Puking." Fun times.

Thanks for the encouragement on the price of gas, here in PA. it just reached $4.00. Been riding the bike to work to save gas money and gym workout money, but after having to buy two new WHEELS after a minor mishap on the road, I am thinking it would have been cheaper to buy gas and drive to the gym.
Have a great day!

Here to express some Harlot love... The two of you together? Priceless!

Hello! :-)

OMG that bumper sticker made me think of one of my best friends, who used to live in the LA area (surprised?) No, what's surprising is that now she lives on a horse farm in SC.

Hi! I would love a free book!
I don't knit...yet...but my sister is teaching me this summer! :D

P.S.: I just bought your book, and cannot put it down, except to read you blog.

Hi. And I so need that bumper sticker.

I work for a plastic surgeon and a little Botox would keep you less steamy for about 3-4 months straight. But stay the way you are, you looked Pretty in Pink. I also wear black head-to-toe all year long and know what a big step it is to add color. Wish I could make myself do it more often. Love your blog! I have to check out yours and the yarnharlots blog every morning before work or the day doesn't feel right.

Books? Did I hear someone mention books? Free books???

Hello!

Here in southeastern Missouri, we have July and the rainy season. In the cold part of the rainy season, it can be 29 degrees Fahrenheit outside and raining quite in ignorance of the laws of physics...

wish i had your way with words, girl.

i'd love to enter the contest for the book, and to tell you that, other than those mysteriously simultaneously cool and warm days in the winter when the camellias are blooming, june gloom is my absolute favorite weather here in socal -- cozy, cool, sweater weather.

hello

hey, how are the zukes?

Delurking to enter...

To the person who said I discriminate against Canadians, you are obviously stoned! You should share.

All MY sweepstakes are open to all people on the planet. I can't control sweepstakes run by other companies so cut me some slack.

Hello!

that bumper sticker is hilarious!

Add me to the list of delurkers hoping to win a book!

de-lurking for the book as well!

enter me! thanks!

Pick me! Pick me! It will be my first knit book EVER!

Cars have horns?
*little known factoid - midwesterners rarely use their horns for anything other than their government sanctioned purpose: warning of danger. We think about using them A LOT, but rarely do. When I'm finally mad enough to use the darn thing I can never find it & usually just end up turning the radio up really loud.

Did somebody say FREE BOOKS?? Sign me up please!

It's only 1:07 PM here in Virginia and we've already had morning gloom, a wicked rain storm and now the sun is out and it's already HOT! The way it's going today there should be a snowstorm and a sandstorm by evening!

Two Harlot books?!?! I would love 'em! BTW, you look great in that bright pink color.

Thanks for entering me in your drawing.

And me, I'm delurking too. Please pick me (hand raised and waving wildly in air!!)

Just lurking to enter contest!!!! Love your site CAP :)

Love the pink! But then...you always manage to look ridiculously cute in all your photos! Not gonna lie: I'm more than a little jealous that you got to go meet famous people and acquire fantastic signed books as part of your job. Seriously worth the social anxiety (I put my foot in it regularly too!) in my opinion.

P.S. Dear random number generator: Pick me!

Enter me, please, and thanks for the giveaway. You rock in pink - definitely your color! Did you get some awesome pink dancin' shoes to match??

I like your website. I think that a woman who can go to Italy, by herself, and not know the language, shouldn't be nervous about leaving her home and enjoying herself. I think you would be a joy to be around.

I tried to blame some embarrasing drunken flubs and flop sweats on "that Raurie girl" once. No one gets my humor...

:)

The Yarn Harlot recently came to Charlotte. I was impressed with how geniunely nice and down to earth she is.

book book bo book, bananafanna fo-fook... me mi mo mook... boooooook

Did Slash write a book?

You crack me up!
Random amusing story, wherein I am cracking myself up and also possible have my office sniggering behing my back, because I decided to attempt to spray tan myself and have ended up as a splotchy orange oompa loompa. I then tried to fix the splotches with nail polish remover this morning and ended up wrecking my manicure. whoops. I am not so much awake at 7 am. I now have three unpainted finger nails that need to be fixed. and we have office outing tomorrow, so even though I wil exfoliate a zillion times, i will have to go looking orange and splotchy because it will be hot and I cannot wear pants. Hope everyone else is having a better Tuesday!

Hello!
I think I'm completely with you on the sweat-with-nervousness thing. I went to my first-ever stitch n bitch this weekend [it was awesome! woohoo!] and I kind of regretted the decision to wear a tank top. Heh.

But I'm definitely up to the idea of winning a book! ^_^

Ooh, free books! =D

Also, I totally sympathize with the sweating-while-nervous thing. You're a braver soul than I!

Hey!!! Did someone say free books? Here I am. We have now entered the hot, humid, smoggy weather in Atlanta. YUCK!

A free knitting book? My broke little self is loving the concept!

Sigh...I pumped gas for $4.23 in Ohio on Sunday. IN OHIO! That is not the definition of thrifty, that's for sure.

Hello Laurie! I want to win.

BTW, I live right near that gas station (Temple and Glendale Bl) Thank goodness I try to walk everywhere.

Count me in on wanting a free book!

OH NO!!! I posted my email address... eeeekkk!!!

Hello!

I'm right with you there on the gas prices! $4.31 in San Diego this morning. It was at $3.99 FOREVER, then it seemed that one gas station was willing to make the leap over $4.00 for regular and everyone followed suit. Then, it was as though they figured, "Well, we're already over $4.00, they're not really going to start complaining until $5.00, so we can just raise the gas prices 32 cents in two weeks...no problem!"

Hello - also delurking, and if the Yarn Harlot's book is half as funny as yours...I want in!!! Enter me to win, pretty please.

I'm with you 100% on the bumper sticker. And I would love the Yarn Harlot's book, too. Cheers!

Hello!

And also, you can keep your damn June Gloom because it has been encroaching on our (usually) beautiful June weather up north thus making me Not Happy. What's up with that? (I guess I should be thankful that people have not been using the ACs like maniacs thus helping the planet just a little bit. But I am cold.) :(

wow, the last time i won something was way back in first grade when i won a cabbage patch kid in the school raffle. they called my name out on the speaker and when i received it, i was so disappointed because a.) it was a cheap ghetto version of cabbage patch kids and b.) it was bald and ugly and waaay out of proportion!

Books - I love books. I'd love to win the Harlot's book!

'Sup! I loved your last entry! :)

a hello for a book

I just love that in your picture, you can see not only the street sign, but the sign letting you know which cross street is coming up. I live in the Boston area, where street signage appears to be opptional!

OMG, the bumper sticker guy has a FSM decal! Go, Pastafarian! :)

(I'm also WAY over pleasing everyone. What's that quote? Something about the ones who mind don't matter and the ones who matter don't mind. Love that. You go, girl!)

Me! Me! Me! I would LOVE a knitting book. I wanted to let you know that I went to a Stitch and Pitch at my local ballpark. (Go Cardinals! Whoo!) I am slowly, slowly making friends in my new city (been here a year now, and lovin it!) and there's only one more box that I haven't unpacked. One! lol

Did you get any nice weather before it hit the 100's or was it like St. Louis, where we had 60's for weeks and then it jumped up to high 80's overnight? There are places that get spring, right?

I now have a picture of you, post Botox to get rid of sweat in your pits where your pits are still discolored because they are dry but the rest of your clothes are wet from sweat! HA! Anyway, count me in for the book givaway please!

Why, hello there.

Ooh, I've resisted buying that book (I too am trying to be less of a consumer), and it hasn't hit my library yet. I'd *love* to win it. I love your blog, you crack me up! (and I mean that in the nicest way!)

Hello! Delurking because I do love a contest, and also enjoy your blog. Congratulations on what sounds like your reduced sweatiness!

You look beeeeautiful!! :)

Ooh! I want to win a book, I love books, books love me, it's a love fest people!

Hello!

Yes, I do realize it would be totally annoying if I won again. Still.

Between you and the Harlot I've decided I have to write a book so I can go to BEA.

Need that bumper sticker. (We have one that says "honk if you can read this" in Latin. Every few months someone honks and we have no idea why, because we've forgotten.) (I have also memorized the sentence "te fac futuaris caballumque in quo huc equitasti," which will come in handy next time I get into a slangfest with a Latin scholar. ["in quo huc equitasti" = "you rode in on."])

Trade you for your warm weather and you can have our true overcast and rain.:)

I am so with you on the people-pleasing stuff. It's taken a major illness for me to realise I have to drop it, and it's still a struggle sometimes. Well done, you :))))

BTW, here in the north of England we call that weather High Summer :)

Please put me in to win the book, I hate the gas prices , here in portland oregon I saw reg for 4.11 It makes me ill Thanks Andi

Hello! I like free things (like everyone else)... sorry about your gas prices, they're getting there over here on the East Coast, but not quite there yet.

i would love a free book! and you looked great in your pink top with this gorgeous necklace!!

Thanks, as always, for your down-to-earth good sense with a generous bit of laugh-out-loud humor thrown in. You seem to be a lovely person, both inside and out!

My daughter lives in LA so I love reading your updates on LA life - weather, traffic, gas prices. Plus your posts always make me smile!

Also love your free give aways!

Hello. I, too, love to win stuff and I think the move to color is a fantastic look for you! You look great in your pictures, but mostly you look amazingly happy!!

Pick me..pick me!!! I porn love your spicy commentary on life and porn you make my day! See..we ARE reading you!:))

Hola! I ran across your blog by complete accident a few months back while doing some research for work and haven't missed a day since. I got your book, which I loved and have already passed it along to my other quite single friend. I was inspired and started my own blog and OMG...between that and rum who needs therapy!

Winning good. No wine bad.

Jean P -- I heart you. Porn.

I'm in for the contest.

BTW - I'm visiting my boyfriend in LA this weekend. It's horribly hot here (in Texas.) Does "June Gloom" mean it'll be a little cooler? (Please say yes. *crosses fingers*)

Books keep me sane, and my sanity is recommended for anyone near me. :)

It's been quite a year for me as well, and you have been a big help in that department. You don't even know how huge. Thank you.

I am in for your contest.

Thank you!

pink suits you. and my kids are in love with your baby brother. I am too, come to think of it...

Hey! I love to read your blog. Thank you!

Laurie,
I sit back and lurk and read your insights and wonder how it is that you got in my head. Then I admire and applaud how you seem to be figuring it all out now. PLEASE keep writing and posting; you have helped me come to terms with many of my own demons.

Also, I LOVE that pink on you. It is VERY flattering. Add it to your wadrobe to balance out the black and keep wearing it.

Phyllis
:)

Hello! You know, the pink looks really cute on you though...I think it's worth the risk!

Morning!!!

I really enjoy your writing, thank you!
Also, I am entering your contest. :)

I would like to enter the book contest.

Pick me! Pick me!
Please?

Love your blog...no that's not a token bribe. I read it always!

Hello! I'm always up for books...thanks for doing contests! So fun!

Hi Laurie! Just found your blog a few months ago and LOVE it! You are so funny and I look forward to reading CAP every day. Any chance you'll be coming to IL anytime soon? P.S. Please pick me to win...I am desperate need of a new book to read!!!

I'll say "Hello" for a chance to win a book...Thanks for the chance and for sharing your thoughts in your blog!

hello! books are good. send me anything you want to clear off your bookshelf.

Hi! June Gloom - cute. Here in the northeast we're so excited it's over 40 that we have shorts and flip flops on regardless of the sky.

delurking for a free book. I'm ashamed of that, but there it is.

de-lurking to enter the book contest. I love the yarn Harlot!

Our weather here in Missouri has been crazy just last week we had the heat on and today the air is on!

The pink looks very triffic on you - you should wear more colour (b/c of course I AM a fashion consultant since you ask!. Also - YAY to books!

If you choose me (and please do. No really, please do)I shall give you an Earth address and arrange for forward posting in to Mars myself. Or you could send it direct to NASA and they could send it up with the next probe.

Honestly - those science geeks. If they had just contacted me I could have told them this is so completely the wrong time of year to be at the Martian North Pole - you think June Gloom is bad. Let me show you some holiday pics from growing up there.

Not delurking.. just never have anything to say, yall say it all so well I never need to.
Terry
MIA - Sockwarsiii, presumed dead.

I hope I win but not for me, I am going to give it to my mom who is my best knit buddy even though we hardly ever get to actually knit together. We do plenty of virtual yarn shopping together!

This is my "Hi I'd love a free amazing book rightnowthankyou" post..btw I think it is admirable to be #1 anywhere. At all. :)

Up here in San Francisco, the June Gloom lasts until September. You should come here - loads of cool weather, but maybe fewer wacky eccentrics...or not!

Dang. Two ways to win a Yarn Harlot book. You ladies are frakkin' awesome!!!!!!!!!

I love that bumper sticker. My other favorite is "do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

Hello hello! I just had to add that I am with ya sistah on the meeting people thing. I have to travel next week for work and I am more than slightly freaked out about it. I haven't met any of these people before and it's a new city and involves expense reports for meals and all sorts of stuff I wish I could ignore.

I will be taking lots of knitting with me. It helps when I'm nervous. And maybe a book! :)

I want to win!

Howdy! I like winning free stuff, especially if it's books. In our house, books are totally allowed, regardless of any budget or space considerations. Which is why I have furniture which was either donated or bought at Goodwill or rescued from a dump, but the furniture is used to store a few thousand dollars in reading material. Sad, really.

Ohh I want a book. I am addicted to reading. And free stuff

I want to be a winner in life! (& in winning books!)

Sorry for the email! I'm stupid and couldn't figure out how to post a comment! Feel sorry for me and pick me, please!

I'll try for the free book! Glad you enjoyed your celebrity weekend... how are the cats?

bookbookbook! Love the Harlot!

We're into June with April weather here in Oregon. We had one scorcher of a weekend and then cold and rainy again.

Ooh, a chance for a Harlot book? Count me in!

This is stupid, but I get so excited when I see your book in Borders--it's like "HEY! There's that book that I loved by my very dear friend...I mean, total stranger, Laurie."

Cheers,

Betty

OOh ooh! Pick me, pick me! Yes, that's the response of a high school English teacher at the end of the year. . . !

Book? Yarn Harlot? *Gasp*

You see, I live in Germany (although I'm American) and I never get to see Yarn Harlot. And I have to read all about her book tours and see the pictures and hear about how funny she was.... And then, I finally get to go to the States on business (leaving in two weeks)....to Chicago. I've never been there before. And what happens? I MISS THE YARN HARLOT BY TWO DAYS! *Sob*

So please consider me a worthy person to win the book prize!

When are you coming to Germany?

Whee!! total lurker, but I want that book!! ;)
So consider me entered! Yeah, gas prices are completely dicked...

Love me a yarn harlot book!

Hello! And it's a good thing I didn't move to Mars like I'd been thinking. Free books are better than no water or neighbors.

Hello, Thank you.

Pick me! Pick me!

LOVE that bumper sticker. Cannot BELIEVE the price of gas in your neck of the woods! We're very close to $4/gallon for regular here in the PacNW with a few stations already getting that. I caved and bought a Prius.

Hello!

I love the combo...YarnHarlot book from CrazyAuntPurl...2 regular blog reads combined.

Hang in there, girl.

hi- your book is great! my hair-losing boyfriend thinks so also!
take care!

Love books! Thanks for offering! It was 50 the other day and this Fri it's supposed to be 90. Love Central NY!! The joke is if you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes and it'll change.

Hello,
I'd love to win a book!
Come visit us in New Brunswick, Canada

Ok, I've always wanted to ask this, and since you have a contest and are MAKING me comment, I'll ask.
Who is that marvelous model you have in your banner?

Plus, congrats on making it through the weekend with your sanity in tact!

Greetings from Colorado.

You are such an inpiration, Laurie! If I had seen as many celebrities as you did this weekend, I'd be drowning in a pool of sweat! Totally dressed in black, of course!

Please put my name in the drawing!

Entering the book giveaway!

Hello.

Free books! Yeah! Bye the way I saw here in my local book store a cook book just for zucchini and thought of you Laurie..haha. Thanks again for cool contests and you look fabulous in the pics.

Hello!
Yes please to winning a book.

Hi, we had hail Sunday in Minneapolis on Sunday! Looked like a blizzard with over 2" piled up on the grass. Please enter me for the book too. Love your blog (and book!). Cheryl

Hi!

Please register me for the book give-away. Yeay!

Glad to hear BEA went well. You always get to meet the most INTERESTING people there. :)

I love reading your blog it's always a way to check reality for me.

That people-pleasing thing gets worse when I am in a yarn store or plant nursery. For some reason, I feel like I have to buy something, anything, preferrably in great quantities. But I am adopting your idea of making a list and promising myself I can buy it later if I still want it (this is tricky in plant nurseries because "later" usually means "next year" but that's okay). Anyhoooo, I'm in the contest now, right?

Oooh, please enter me!

Pick me! Pick me!

Ooh - Free Books please!!

Also, every day I read both your blog and the Yarn Harlot's and it filled me with glee to see you guys blog about meeting each other. It shoudn't since of course all famous writerly knit-bloggers would know each other (or at least OF each other) but still... awesome.

I'm in Boston. We have weather. Today, there might even be sun. Even.

And, please enter me in the contest. I just love the idea of unexpected potentially cool stuff.

pax --
Betsey (and many cats)

You always bring a smile to my face. Even on the crappy days! :)
Please enter for the giveaway, thanks!!

Oo Oo I would love a book ; )

Hey I though gas was suppose to be more exspensive in LA then NY
Here I just saw 4.28. Hubby is betting it will hit 5 before July. I told him to create a pool = )

We're loving the manual transmission Yaris and slower driving as the price of fuel rises. We do so much better than the posted EPA estimates that going the posted highway speed limit seems like flushing money down the toilet. Seriously around 10 mpg better (to 44-45 mpg) from slowing down. Anyway, I am also a fan of that bumper sticker, and would love to win books.

Have a terrific Tuesday!

Hello! Bonjour! Buenos Dias! Guten Tag! Book, yes...please...

De-Lurking to say I read your blog all the time.
And did you say book give away?

Here in Alabama we have Not So Hot, Hot, Incredibly Hot, and We Live In Hell Hot. Please enter me!

Toss my name in the hat, please!

I love our June gloom. I saw this on a sign, June Gloom go to the moon!!

Ola! Good Day! Ciao! Koneecheewah! Strassveitya!(sorry to all you asian and european friends about those horrible misspellings) Hello! Hey, y'all! Pick me!

BOOK? YARN HARLOT? Please - bring it on!!

Hi!
Keeping my fingers crossed that I'm the winner of the book!

me, me, me! I'd love to win some books!

And I think it's great that you've stopped worrying so much about tripping and stuff. My writing teacher says that pointing out your own flaws (like clumsiness--a talent I have too) makes the reader like you and want to keep reading.

Thank you for giving stuff away - I'm in!

Hello!

I'd love to enter the drawing for the book!

Love your blog! And your pics of gas prices make me happy I am not in CA!

pick me pick me!!!

I was in Southern Calif years ago - for a library geek conference, and went out to Santa Monica on the transport system a/k/a/ bus - it was a beautiful June day - sun, blue skies, and a sunburn where my shirt color had moved lower on my neck where I hadn't put sunscreen.
And then weather screwed up the flight back home - and I hadn't learned to knit then..... oh, the horrors.
Nice memory, and the chance to win a book - what could be better!

Thanks!

Hello

Free books are fun. :)

Books?

I LOOOOOOVE books!

Please sign me up for the giveaway! :-)

Just reead about the meltdown in Nashville, so though I think I've said this before, checking in to reiterate that yours is one of the two, count 'em two blogs I read everytime you post, because you either make me laugh, in a good way, or think, sometimes both, so just keep it up the way you are, please.--Jenn

Great post, as usual!

"Enter me to win" the book, please . . . and I promise to share with my knitting group. :)

Here's my "hello"!

By the way, I heard word of a bumper sticker that says (something to the effect of) "If you're going to ride my a$$, at least pull my hair." Not sure why that made me think of you! :)

Hello. The weather here in Seattle is - POURING! I want soup! AndI LOVE books and the YaRn Harlot rocks as hard as you do!

~Karen
AKA Paisley Penguin

Hello Laurie!

I'll have to agree with Martha from Kansas that y'alls haze looks much more pleasant than our recent pitch-black-clouds-with-golfball-sized-hail storms. And today is hot and very, very windy. So windy that today's hair style is the wind-blown look. If you don't have it, you're not in the happenin' crowd!!

Hello! Please enter me! Love you!

Hi! I want a book! I LOVE books!

So . . . I can totally relate to the letting go of rehashing conversations and unnecessary anxiety and people pleasing. It's been one of the more recent lessons I've been learning. It has also been one of the most freeing ones.

For example, I no longer have any inhibitions regarding tripping in public over my own feet while standing still. In fact, I think I've perfected that skill.

I would love a book. And if you can get Soba to write her manifesto, I promise to buy it.

Hello! Please enter me in the drawing, too. Did you read the Yarn Harlot's entry yesterday (I think it was yesterday...), where you were promently featured? That should make you feel like a bit of a rockstar - you know, in a knitblog way more than a Slash way. :)

Hello!
I love the Yarn Harlot! I read 4 blogs religiously - yours, the harlot's,the raineysisters,and Poor Miss Finch (her kids are so darn cute!)

now I have to go back and read the rest of todays entry!

brook

PLease enter me to win, please, please please!

Hey! I'd love to win the book. Come on over for fried green tomato sandwiches (good crop this year) and sweet tea if your ever in Alabama. Thanks for the links!

Ooh, I like free books.

I wish I had the guts to put cheeky bumper stickers on my car. Oh, well.

I'm forever trying to please everyone too... it sucks, you never get what YOU want. Tied in to that is the fact that I can never make a decision about anything... I wish you much luck on your quest to change that about yourself. My husband is trying to encourage me in that direction as well. It's really hard, isn't it? Reading your blog makes me feel like "yay, someone else gets it!!!" Thank you for sharing with us with your signature style and humor.

Hey Laurie, just bought your book the other day and am enjoying it very much. Wish it could have your autograph tho. Love your site and the cats. Terry

Hello! I'd love a peak at the Harlot's new book.

Ooooh, please add my name to the book contest!

Helloooo! Free books and June Gloom--What a combo! Here in Arkansas we just have, "Help, I'm melting!". I like your pink outfit. :)

June Gloom....that's a new one! We're have pre-July haze here, which in the afternoons to around supper time turns into Thunderstorm and/or Tornado watch season. Well, enjoy the gloom!

(hey, maybe I'll win a book to read in the basement while riding out the storms!)

Hello, I am entering the contest! Please send me book-y goodness!

Speakng of book-y goodness, my sister gave me your book as a gift without even knowing anything about you or your website or anything. She just saw the combination of knitting and drinking and thought it was rigth up my alley (I am still married and covered in dog hair instead of cat hair, though.) I tore through the book in no time at all, and am currently working on the shawl pattern.

Happy june gloom day:)

Hello.

You have such fun contests, even if you don't win.

:)

Hi! I'd like to enter to win if it's not too late. Thanks!

Pick me! Pick Me! :)

I like to win stuff. (I say that as though I've actually won anything in the memorably recent past.) So here is my "hello!" and my "pick me!"

Hi Laurie!

Saying how-dee-doo from Sweet Home Alabama - where the skies are definitely NOT gray (grey?). Anyhoo...a hot and muggy hello!

Hey, I was going to comment today anyway just to tell you how much I appreciate you, but the whole book contest is the buttercream frosting on the strawberry-filled cake. I just went through a really heart-breaking breakup with a long time boyfriend and one of the things that has helped me the most is re-reading your book and seeing daily proof on your blog that men are not necessary (fun, but not necessary) to lead a full life and that someone one can come back from the wearing-sweat-pants-and-crying-to-the-pizza-boy phase.

Thank you so much.

P.S. I just turned 21, so I can take advantage of some of the wine advice. :)

I just found your blog a few days ago, and I love it. I'd like to enter the contest, also.

Hi! Enter me for the book, I love free stuff!

hello

hello! you go, ms. purl. contest, ahoy!

Hi! Please enter my name to win "Secret Life of a Knitter". Thanks.

Loved your blog for a very long time. I understand the never-ending fear and I tell ya - you're inspiring more of us than you probably ever thought!

Thanks for the chance to win something as well! This is the bright spot of my tuesday!

I guess if you don't enter, you can't win, right? :) I'd love to win the book!

Oh, and BTW, I told my husband your Slash story last night and he cracked up. That's a good husband who will listen to you tell a story about anything related to books (he reads the funnies only) and then laugh at the end to show he was actually listening. Gotta go order more books.

Hello! Love your blog! Hope I win! It is so hot here in Texas, it is unbelieveable!!!

Entering for the book. And commenting to say that I'm with you about letting go of the compulsion to relive past mistakes. Here's an article that puts some things in perspective: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/06/03/o.awful.shut.up/index.html

The title of the article made me laugh: "Yes, it was awful -- now please shut up"
Story Highlights:
~~Storytelling to shed light OK; obsessing aloud to gain pity not healthy
~~Concentrate on the here and now instead of painful problems of past
~~You can't redo the past, but you can toss out old, false ideas
~~Working scared, confused or embarrassed toward goals is OK

Hello!!! Thanks to The Harlot for pointing me to your VERY funny blog!!

I want to win any book you're giving away. Books are a weakness of mine! I so envy how you spent this last weekend!!!

Hello, post.
Hello new book? (:

Hello and, please, enter me in your contest! Thanks.

Dude - over $4 for gas is just insane!!!!!

Hello! I wanna win! Plzzzzzzz

I wish, wish, wish for a free book! (you can't see this but I'm walking around my house with my fingers crossed)

Hi, again! Sign me up!

I love the Yarn Harlot! Plus it is my birthday today so maybe I'll have good contest karma :)

I love contests! Guess that's a good reason to comment today :)

I would read any books sent my way.

Free book!? Hell-to-the-yeah!

love books, love knitting, love the pink blouse!! no new books, yarn cause of high gas prices so pick me for books, did I mention I love books? thanks for your writing, it makes me laugh so much....

I would like to enter to win, but also to say WELL DONE YOU, because faith is not the absence of fear, it's being afraid, but doing stuff anyway.

Count me in!

It's too hot here (just outside of New Orleans) to go to the bookstore or library, besides gas prices are too high, I'd love to go to the mailbox and find a new book.

I want the Yarn Harlot's book! Send it to me...and if you have any spare yarn cluttering up your house, why, you can send that too! (Just trying to be helpful, you know.)

Well, gosh, got so excited, I forgot to sign in. That's me in the post about hot New Orleans.

I want the Yarn Harlot's book! Send it to me...and if you have any spare yarn cluttering up your house, why, you can send that too! (Just trying to be helpful, you know.)

Yikes! Over 275 comments!
Anyway, don't quote me but the local newspaper mentioned that Arco gas is $4.01 (cash) and Costco is about the same but they take (Amex and debit cards).

This is the first time I've ever read your blog - I love it! And on top of being extremely entertaining you're giving away books?!! I think I've stumbled on something pretty cool here!

Hello! Will you ship to Venus, then? Is that closer?

Ok, you can send it to my Earth email.

BTW - gas is still $4.08 here in Michigan - and we DO get real weather. Hmmpf.

I'm so in for the books!!!

(love your blog BTW!!)

The first of what looks like 5 days of rain straight, here (Alberta Canada) - no wonder 3 of my son's 5 baseball games so far have been cancelled... Oh well, might as well knit!!

Hola Chica! I know all about the sweaty around the edges...

I never win anything...but it's worth a try!

Jodi

Hello ... did I read book ? books ??

I love free stuff...so count me in! Ur the best, Laurie!

Hi! June gloom, I love it! Also, I love books, so please throw my name in the hat.

I'm entering for the book! I love books! And any extra beta-blockers! They've gotten me through some public singing!

de-lurking...

We have the nicest summer weather right now. :)

here i am
entering

HELLO

thanks
denise in c'ville, va

I never win anything, but hey, I'll give it a shot. Gas here on LI is: $4.21/$4.37/$4.99. When I got my car in 2001 it cost me $10-12 to fill up my tank. Now it's nearing $40. I realize that I am very lucky but still....

Hello,

I would love a chance at an autographed book.

I so want this book!

I hope I win. Is that a cartoon Cancer the Crab on the back of that car?

Gas here on Long Island is $4.21 for regular!
I so love that bumper sticker!! Yea!

Thanks for writing a great blog - i love to read this! And now you add give aways to the mix......

I wanna book too.... I came out from under the floorboards fot the offer of a free book.
I needs me some free stuff, please:)
Lisa

I'd love a book, too. And let me be the hundredth or so to tell you that you're cute in pink.

Hello in the comments!! hehehhe

I feel your pain. Here in Alberta, on top of the oilfields, it costs $65 to fill up my little PT Cruiser!

We are so predictable! Mention a freebie & we all come out of the woodwork! A new reader from Harlot's blog. The self-improvement never ends! We just keep learning - hopefully! :-))

Hello! I live in LA and just wanted to agree with you that earthquake weather IS NOT A REAL THING. And I heart June Gloom too!

Hello!
I enjoy your blog- thanks for all of the joy you give to others!

Ooo, a chance to win some books!

Gas is up to $4.09 at the BP in Buckhannon, WV. Shocking. I nearly drove onto the sidewalk when I saw that mess. Keep using that mass transit lady!

I thought I'd also de-lurk to enter the giveaway. We love the june gloom here in the pomona valley too!

You look pretty in pink! My cats love the
cardboard chaise, thanks for the link!

Okay, yes, I'd love to win Steph's book... but even more so:

It's amazing how much you've grown from where you keep telling us you were. You are hilarious. You have a great way of looking at the world, and you're not afraid to look at YOURSELF. In sharing your growth experiences (and the whys and hows), you're encouraging your readers to have a look around and maybe shake things up themselves.

Here's the truth: If you didn't tell us, we wouldn't know that you had all of the 'issues' you talk about. By opening up so much of yourself to the whole WWW world, you're helping us, too, in both little and BIG ways.

It might sound dorky (I'm used to that), but you have changed MY life just by being there for me 'most every morning when I get up and click on my Bloglines button. Thank you.

I need to win some free books. Can't buy them right now because I spent a freakin $100.00 on cross-stitch stuff today - ha!

Hello. I'm hoping to win the book because my sister, who is a children's book editor for a big publishing house, was just in LA at the book expo. But she wasn't able to get poor me in NJ any free books or goodies because she had to be all serious since she was working! So it was killing me to see you and the Yarn Harlot out there signing, and I couldn't even ask my sister to get me a signed copy of anything!

I want!!!

Please put me in for the book draw!!! So very exciting!

Hello Laurie! Please pick me to win the book. k thx bye

Hi! Can I have the book? please?

Hello!

THECOMhelloMENTs

;-)

Hey! Love you Laurie and if I win the book I will love you even more!!!

Oh Laurie... It's so good to be back... I was gone for a while. I just moved to Arizona... I have recommendations on the pit sweatage. My great grandma, the super thrifty and slightly insane Norwegian, told me to cut maxi pads in half and put them in my shirt armpits. I haven't actually tried this, I'm afraid of the diaper noise... But it might work????? I've missed you and need to take some time to catch up on the comings and goings of your life... Have a good day!!! And "Hi!"

Hello! :) Happy Tuesday.

HELLO!!!!!!

From Charlotte, NC

Book give away, where----where?????

I have an address! :) Pick me! :)

I love reading your blog and I loved your book!

Would also love to win a book...

So full of love I am....

Ooh!! Books!!

Sobakowa said you should give ME the Harlot book.
(Srsly)

:-)

Another infrequent commenter delurking...

Botox for sweating - really? I don't even want to *imagine* how that works...

we just had flat out rain today. *sigh* I'm so ready for the summer. saw your pic on the Harlot's page. Oh, and I want to win a book too ;)

Hey Laurie

In Hamilton NZ we have that weather 8 months of the year, the other four are raining. Yay, good knitting weather i suppose, but I have no clothes left, and i really need to get some dry!

BTW I have a cat that not only looks like Soba, but also wants to take over the world, she already stole my husband. Maybe we should get the two together (or not, actually).

Hi! I came over from the Yarn Harlot's blog yesterday to read yours for the first time. So I think it only appropriate that I win the book ;)

Soba for president!

Hooray - Contest ... back to lurking now...

Ooo...Ooo...I would love the book!

Throw my name into the pot for the Yarn Harlot's book.

The gas prices are so sad. The Costco here is barely hanging on at 3.969 a gallon. Sure to be $4, probably by lunch.

You looked marvelous at BEA.

Hello from hot and windy north Texas!! Love your blog!! You look fabulous in pink, you should wear it more often! Put me in for the free book---I could use it for upcoming vacation. Thanks!!

Good gravy! The posts! Pick me! :)

we have the gloom too!
But at least now we have greenery to go with our gloom!

Yay, Yarn Harlot Book!

Can I get in on the contest? I should be studying for a big test but I couls not pass up a change to win something.

Hello!!! Another lurker trying to win a book here. Do we have to enter again tomorrow for the stack of books? If not, this is my entry for that, too. If so, I will de-lurk again tomorrow!! Thanks for the fantastic blog and the way you make me feel (that's a song!)

Yesterday I had the day from hell, and as usual, you brought a huge smile to my face. Just had to say thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!

Please enter me into the contest to win the Yarn Harlot's book. I'm just a novice knitter so I need to read the book to find out how to become a yarn harlot.

Books are good, I could handle winning a book. But dang, there's a lot of competition here!

Another de-lurker here...Keeping my fingers crossed.

Hello!

(Now I wonder if I should say something more than hello, or if hello is enough, or if more than 'hello' will actually *disqualify me*... oh the agony.)

Hola! Tag! Hello!

Please count me in for the SPM signed book -- thank you. I so enjoy your blog.

School is out at the end of this week, so I have reading time on my hands . . .

Loved the pix of Slash, especially signing Faith's neck. Too cool! Thanks for the book give-away too.

Delurking just for the chance of winning a book, shame on me :) But I've read through most of your archives, so I guess I count as a loyal lurker (I got stuck reading the comments to "Brevity, thy name is ... someone other than me"... somewhere around comment 288)
Thanks for the giveaway!
Andrea in Argentina

Let me be no. 350 with me saying "Hello"! .... for a book in any case.

Ok, I'll throw my "hello" post into the pot, even though you've had a bagillion people say "hello" already, so the odds of me winning are pretty slim!

I love reading your blog (and love your book) and I love free stuff!